Before I took off to Europe, I sent out a blanket email asking for some book recommendations. I definitely needed to diversify my reading material. I pretty much had been reading nothing but text books, sci-fi and political non-fiction for the last four years. Though I still love all of those genres, I felt it was time to mix it up. I got some great responses. Here are the lists I received:
From Ashley:
Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
Interview with the Vampire-Anne Rice
The Vampire Lestat- Anne Rice
Get in the Van- Henry Rollins
Autobiography by Lemmy from Motorhead
From Alaina:
The 5 People you Meet in Heaven-Mitch Albom
Tuesdays with Morie-Mitch Albom
Rain of Gold- Víctor E. Villaseñor
Count of Montecristo- Alexandre Dumas
Anything by Charles Bukowski
From Lisa:
Das Parfum- Patrick Suskind
The Treasured Writings of Khalil Gibran
Anything by H.P. Lovecraft
The Kite Runner- Khaled Hosseini
Go Ask Alice- I forget the author's name, but it's non-fiction
The Edge Chronicles:Vox-Paul Stewart and Chris Riddell
Paradise Lost- John Milton
Faust- Johann Wolfgang van Goethe
Alice's Adventure's In Wonderland- Lewis Carroll
Anything by August Derleth (he's even from Wisconsin!)
Lurkers In The Threshold- H.P. Lovecraft & August Derleth!!!!
Naked Lunch- William S. Burroughs
From Jacie:
The Tattooed Solider - Hector Tobar
The Rum Diary-Hunter S. Thompson
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson
Breakfast of Champions - Kurt Vonnegut
Prince of Tides - Patrick Conroy
The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. LeGuin
The Beach - Alex Gardner
From Corrie:
Scar Tissue- The biography of Anthony Kiedis
From Eric:
Devil in the White City - Erik Larson
Thud - Terry Pratchett
Good Omens- Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman
Lamb - Christopher Moore
Everything is Illuminated-Jonathan Safran Foer
Dune - Frank Herbert
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle- David Wroblewski
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism- Naomi Klein
The Name of the Rose- Umberto Eco
Foucault's Pendulum-Umberto Eco
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life-Barbara Kingsolver
From Shawn:
Shantaram- Gregory David Roberts
World War Z- Max Brooks
Holy Cow: An Indian Adventure- Sarah McDonald
Dune- Frank Herbert
Why the Last Man- Brian K. Vaughn
Testament - David Morrell
From Tanya:
Love is a Mix Tape- Rob Sheffield
From Chris:
The Third Policeman- Flann O'Brian
At Swim-Two-Birds- Flann O'Brian
The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco
One Hundred Years of Solitude- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Invisible Cities- Italo Calvino
A Dictionary of the Khazars-Milorad Pavich
From Jason:
Worshipping the Myths of World War II- Edward Wood
Ten Little Indians- Sherman Alexie
Toughest Indian in the World- Sherman Alexie
The Blood Meridian- Cormac McCarthy
Grail Quest Trilogy- Bernard Cornwell
From Caitlin:
Persepolis I and Persepolis II- Marjane Satrapi
From Christina:
Skinny Legs and All- Tom Robbins
Fierce Invalids Home from Warm Climates- Tom Robbins
Eat, Pray, Love- Elizabeth Gilbert
Anything by Isabel Allende
Blink - Malcolm Gladwell Climates
Anything by Chuck Palahniuk
From Mark:
Time Quake- Kurt Vonnegut
The Dirt- Motley Crue
The Best Democracy Money Can Buy- Greg Palast
Of Mice and Men- John Steinbeck
Run With the Hunted- Charles Bukowski
Hot Water Music
From Rachel:
His Illegal Self- Peter Carey
From Steve:
The Nasty Bits- Anthony Bourdain
From Anthony:
The Bellie of Paris- Emile Zola
From Chuck:
Ladies of Liberty- Cokie Roberts
From Joanne:
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Invisible Man- Ralph Ellison
Native Son- Richard Wright
Pride and Prejudice- Jane Austen
Winesburg, Ohio- Sherwood Anderson
The Old Man and the Sea- Ernest Hemingway
Memoirs of My Melancholy Whores- Gabriel Garcia Marquez
From Espi:
Middlesex- Jeffrey Eugenides
The Time Traveler's Wife-Audrey Niffenegger
The Unbearable Lightness of Being- Milan Kundera
Kite Runner- Khaled Hosseini
From Johnny:
The Selfish Gene- George Williams
Origins of Satan- Elaine Pagels
God Delusion- Richard Dawkins
The Blind Watchmaker-Richard Dawkins
The Way of Zen- Alan Watts
Nature, Man and Woman- Alan Watts
The God of Small Things- Arundhati Roy
Hegemony or Survival: America's Quest for Global Dominance- Noam Chomsky
From Drea:
The Twilight Series- Stephanie Meyer
Tipping the Velvet- Sarah Waters
My Horizontal Life- Chelsea Handlers
From Orielle:
Unbowed- Wangari Maathai
From Tegan:
Kalooki Nights- Howard Jacobson
Maps and Legends- Michael Chabon
From Myself:
Satanic Verses- Salman Rushdie
The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism- Naomi Klein
From Kristin:
A Thousand Splendid Suns- Khaled Husseini
A Long Way Gone-Ishmael Beah
Beautiful Boy- David Sheff
Tweak-Nic Sheff
The Divide- Nicholas Evans
Angels and Demons- Dan Brown
Three Cups of Tea- Greg Mortenson
From Nails:
Dialectic of Enlightenment- Theodor W. Adorno
The Women's List -Marilyn French
The Death Ship -B Traven
On Hashish-Walter Benjamin
The Quiet Girl
- Peter Høeg
Extinction-Thomas Bernhard
From Nicolas:
Una soñaba que era rey- Enrique Serna